Research Article
Prenatal Maternal Stress Predicts Childhood Asthma in Girls: Project Ice Storm
Table 3
Chi-squared tests providing descriptive statistics (
, %) for categorical variables.
| | Characteristics | Wheezing | Doctor-diagnosed asthma | Inhaled corticosteroids consumption | | Yes (%) | No (%) | Yes (%) | No (%) | Yes (%) | No (%) |
| | Parent | | | | | | | | Parental asthma | | | | | | | | Neither parent | 23 (53) | 20 (47) | 8 (19) | 35 (81) | 16 (37) | 27 (63) | | At least one parent | 14 (56) | 11 (44) | 6 (24) | 19 (76) | 9 (27) | 16 (73) | | Chi2 (1) | 0.04, | 0.28, | 0.01, | | Child | | | | | | | | Sex | | | | | | | | Boy | 20 (63) | 12 (38) | 8 (25) | 24 (75) | 14 (44) | 18 (56) | | Girl | 17 (47) | 19 (53) | 6 (17) | 30 (83) | 11 (31) | 25 (69) | | Chi2 (1) | 1.59, | 0.72, | 1.27, |
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